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Would you socialise with others while a member of your household was awaiting a PCR test result?

79 replies

LordOfTheThings · 04/09/2021 18:34

Or would you be happy to socialise with someone who had a household member waiting for a result?

Straw poll please. Yes or No for both.

OP posts:
dementedpixie · 04/09/2021 18:40

Is the person not getting test double vaccinated?
I personally think you shouldn't socialise while someone in your family was waiting for the PCR result

Invasionofthegutsnatchers · 04/09/2021 18:40

No

Alternista · 04/09/2021 18:41

No to both

Fubitch · 04/09/2021 18:43

Definitely no.

DDiva · 04/09/2021 18:43

No

merrygoround88 · 04/09/2021 18:44

No to noth

Abraxan · 04/09/2021 18:45

I'd give the person I was due to meet the choice.

I will still be expected to be at work, in school, with lots of children and other adults so not sure avoiding going out anywhere else would make much difference.

I'm double vaccinated and have had covid previously.

Friolero · 04/09/2021 18:45

No for both

tiredanddangerous · 04/09/2021 18:46

No

Hellocatshome · 04/09/2021 18:47

I wouldn't but technically with the new rules you can so they weren't doing anything wrong. I think ethically they should have given the person they were socialising with a choice.

shinynewapple21 · 04/09/2021 19:11

No to both

Elieza · 04/09/2021 19:13

No and no.

Why risk spreading a virus if you don’t have to. Results are quick just now. A couple of days chilling at home is not the end of the world.

Howshouldibehave · 04/09/2021 19:15

I wouldn’t be from a social point of view. All staff and children are expected in though which seems ridiculous.

WhiskeyNeverStartsToTasteNice · 04/09/2021 19:15

No, although I don't think it would be against the rules to do so now.

Mariell · 04/09/2021 19:19

Yes and yes.

liveforsummer · 04/09/2021 19:19

Well I work in a school and probably in contact with such people on a daily basis. If they are under 18 or vaccinated they won't have to isolate even if the result is positive.

LegendaryReady · 04/09/2021 19:36

I would have said no way until recently, but as I understand it, current rules are that, even if household member tests positive, if I'm double vaccinated I carry on and usual and get a PCR myself, but don't isolate until and unless I get a positive test. So I'd still have to go to work where I'm a much greater risk to others than anything I do socially. I would tell others and let them choose though. (People I work with wouldn't get a choice).

If it was someone I knew who lived with potentially infected person, as I'm vaccinated, I'd take the risk, unless there was something (like a holiday) coming up which would make a positive test really inconvenient.

OhWhatsTheDifference · 04/09/2021 19:40

Nope

5lilducks · 04/09/2021 19:46

Yes and yes. Dd is going to nursery (attached to primary school) from next week and I suspect she will be meeting many children and teachers who have family members awaiting pcr test results. So it makes no sense for me not to .

DocAutumn · 04/09/2021 19:48

Yes to both

HonoreDeBallsache · 04/09/2021 19:49

Yes to both.

Knittingupastorm · 04/09/2021 19:52

Yes and yes, however I would let whoever I was meeting know, so they could decide.

hedgehogger1 · 04/09/2021 19:57

No to socialising but I'd be at work in corridors with hundreds of unvaccinated children so I think that's a bigger issue really

Hollyhead · 04/09/2021 19:58

No I wouldn’t socialise but to be honest I wouldn’t be bothered if someone in that position socialised with me.

HalfShrunkMoreToGo · 04/09/2021 20:02

No to both